HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives, technology revolutionised communications, while steamships and railways cut across v...(展开全部)

For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentiet...(展开全部)

沃尔特•拉塞尔•米德为外交关系委员会美国外交亨利•基辛格学者。他定期为《外交事务》杂志撰写书评，为《美国利益》杂志编委、新美国基金会董事会创始成员。他经常为《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》和《时尚先生》撰稿。他撰写的著作有2002年获得莱昂内尔•吉尔伯图书奖（非小说类作品最 重要的奖项——《经济学人》）的《特殊天佑》，和《权力、恐怖、和平与战争》。他现居美国纽约市杰克逊高地。 涂怡超，复旦大学美国研究中心副研究员，兼任察哈尔学会研究员。复旦大学法学博士（2007）、乔治敦大学博士后（2009-2010），美国国家人文中心研究员（2014-2015），研究方向为宗教与国际关系、宗教与政治、基督教史。 罗怡清，资深电视人，美国金门大学整合行销传播专业硕士，美国“圆桌奖学金”获得者。

A stunningly insightful account of the global political and economic system, sustained first by Britain and now by America, that has created the modern world. The key to the two countries' predominance, Mead argues, lies in the individualistic ideology inherent in the Anglo-American religion. Over the years Britain and America's liberal democratic system has been repeatedly c...(展开全部)

The Birth of the Modern World is a wonderfully ambitious book that effectively demonstrates the global nature of the modern world and the need to decentre national histories and think big. It is a 'thematic history' demonstrating how 'historical trends and sequences of events, which have been treated separately in regional or national histories, can be brought together' (p. 1)....(展开全部)

In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the ...(展开全部)

Discusses the dichotomy of artistic thought that led to the evolution of modern painting, as perceived by the new art's Salon des Refuses and the Paris art world of 1863

To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces t...(展开全部)

To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by moats, cliffs, and other landscape features. In Savages and Beasts, Nigel Rothfels traces th...(展开全部)

At a time when the world was falling apart— in an age of religious wars, plague, and the Great Fire of London—a group of men looked around them and saw a world of perfect order. Chaotic as it looked, these earliest scientists declared, the universe was in fact an intricate and perfectly regulated clockwork. This was the tail-end of Shakespeare’s century, and these were brillian...(展开全部)